Christchurch

Don Miskell

Managing Director & Landscape Architect

Education

Diploma Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College, New Zealand, 1977
Bachelor of Horticultural Science, Massey University, New Zealand, 1974

Professional Affiliations

Fellow, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
Member, Resource Management Law Association, New Zealand
Member, Urban Land Institute, USA
Member, Institute of Directors in New Zealand

Profile

Don has practiced as a consulting landscape architect and master planner since graduating in 1977. He has extensive experience in environmental planning and design projects throughout New Zealand and parts of South East Asia and the Pacific. His clients include:

• Property developers
• Utility and mining companies
• Education and health authorities
• Overseas investors

Don is involved in all stages of project development: - site evaluation and selection; master planning; the planning approval process; and project design. He is often engaged as an expert witness on environmental planning and development projects.

Don is committed to continuing professional development. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design he studied master planning, urban retail planning, campus planning and retirement village planning in 1998, and golf course residential site planning in 2002. At the Urban Land Institute Real Estate School in the USA he studied techniques of traditional neighbourhood design in 1998, neighbourhood planning principles and processes in 2003, and Master Planned Communities in 2004.

Don regularly makes study tours of new property development projects in the USA to observe trends.

Expertise

Master planning

Integrated planning and design of major projects from initial briefing and project definition, feasibility and site studies, through to concept development and cost planning.

Urban design

Designing public and private space in urban environments to provide vital, attractive and functional places for people - city centres, streets and plazas, waterfronts, shopping centres and residential projects.

Landscape assessment

Assessing the existing character and landscape effects of proposed development projects in terms of Section 6(a), 6(b), 6(c) and 7(c) Resource Management Act. Advising on mitigation of adverse effects and land development and land management policies.